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If you are experiencing slow load times when doing either of the following:

opening the Browser

creating a project from a template containing the Browser

switching between Screensets that contain the Browser

You may be able to speed up the performance.

When the Browser is opened, the Media Browser portion of the Browser searches your hard drive for content. It will also search any external hard drives, optical drives, or even a floppy disk drive that you have connected to your computer.

In Windows, if you go into Start | Computer, do you have a Floppy Disk Drive listed under “Devices with Removable Storage”? If you see a Floppy Disk Drive listed but do not have one physically installed, you may still have drivers enabled for a Floppy Disk Controller that is built into your computer's motherboard.

Trying to open a Floppy Disk Drive in Windows without having a physical Floppy Disk Drive can take time before Windows detects that there is no media to be read.

If this is the case on your computer, it may be slowing down SONAR or Music Creator’s Browser performance.

To see if this is impacting the performance on your computer, try doing the following:

Open the Run Command by holding down the Windows key on your keyboard and pressing “r”